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INSIDE: TOP OF THE CLASS IN HEIFER CHALLENGE - Page 28 The PANCAKES SATISFY 48 PAGES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2016 Email: editor@spec.com.au WEA GREATER HAMILTON $1.70 inc GST OUR COMMUNITY, YOUR PAPER THER FORECAST TODY artly cloudyA: P NEWLY engaged Hamilton couple Ben Middleton and Rebecca Schultz look forward to celebrating their love on Valentine’s Day tomorrow, a day that coincides with Rebecca’s 32nd birthday. Planning to spend the day together with Rebecca’s children Georgia and Ryder, Ben told The Spectator his fiancé would be treated like a princess. In a relationship for around six months now, Rebecca said the most important thing for her was to be surrounded by her loved ones. , max 30 THE SWEET TOOTHS - Page 9 Phone: 03 55 721011 SUNDY ossible showerA: P , max 23 “I guess it’s pretty unique to have my birthday on Valentine’s Day, I like it actually, it just makes it that little bit extra special. The extra love that comes with it I definitely don’t mind either,” she said. The couple met at a local hotel and although they were both born and raised in the region, it was the first time they had met officially. “I was down at the Cally having a few quiet ones and this pretty lady caught my eye,” Ben said. “It wasn’t long before I knew she was the one. Bec and the kids have helped me want to become a better man.” Photo: JUDY DE MAN 160211jd020 TRUCKIE ALIVE DENIS PETERS AND SKYE GRIGG A REMARKABLE tale of a shocked and injured man walking up to 20km through Western District farmland has emerged in the wake of Tuesday’s horrifi c road crash outside Hamilton in which a driver died and his young passenger was critically injured. The head-on crash involving a 4WD drive vehicle and a B-double truck occurred about a kilometre from the Hamilton Harness Racing Club on the Glenelg Highway, causing the truck to be engulfed in fi re so fi erce that police investigators were initially unsure if the truck driver had been incinerated or had in some way escaped. It subsequently emerged that the truck driver, identifi ed by police as a 51-yearold Glen Waverley man, was found in a dazed state on a sheep property about 16.5km, as the crow fl ies, from the crash scene, but an estimated 20km away if the man had followed local roads and lanes. The injured driver remains under police guard as he recovers in intensive care in Hamilton Hospital and the circumstances of the crash are in the hands of police investigators. Police have not released names of those involved but said the 26-year-old South Australian man from Millicent, the driver of the 4WD, died at the scene. His 17-year-old male passenger, also from Millicent, was fl own to Royal Melbourne Hospital with lifethreatening injuries, and he remains in a critical condition. District farm contractor Graeme Presser told The Spectator he was working on machinery at the property of Ben and Leticia Walkenhorst, about 10km from Penshurst, at about 4pm on Wednesday, and had entered the Ansett First Flight property’s woolshed to retrieve some tools. Mr Presser said he at no stage saw the man but feels certain he disturbed him in the woolshed. This was 34 hours after the road crash. “I woke the fellow up in the shed inadvertently, by the sound of it,” he said. “I must have disturbed him but I never saw that. I was packing up my tools and went over to the house and the fellow’s followed me over to Ben’s house (about 100 metres away). “I drove off to get parts and stuff for whatever I was doing with the header and he’s walked into Ben’s place.” Mr Walkenhorst said he emerged from his house to see a man standing there, dressed in normal clothing but with some pieces of wool fl eece on his clothing. Continued: PAGE 2 PENSHURST farmer Ben Walkenhorst, who found the injured driver and drove him to Hamilton Base Hospital. In the background is the shed where the man is believed to have rested. Photo: JUDY DE MAN. 80th CelebrationsSee pages 17 to 19 160211jd035